1 Sep 2021

Widefield cryo-light microscope for correlative light and electron microscopy imaging

A fluorescence light microscope for imaging of fluorescently labeled samples at cryo-conditions has been installed at Cryo-electron microscopy core facility CEITEC MU (CEMCOF). The purchase of the instrument is a part of the facility upgrade and further development financed by UP CIISB project.

31 Aug 2021

Invitation to the ICMRBS 2020 Founders Medal lectures on Thursday, September 2, 2021

On behalf of ICMRBS, we would like to invite you to the ICMRBS 2020 Founders Medal lectures on Thursday, September 2, 2021, as part of the on-line lecture series ‘Emerging Topics in Biomolecular Magnetic Resonance’ (https://www.mpibpc.mpg.de/emergingmr).
The two Founders Medalists and their lecture titles are

• Paul Schanda (Institute of Science and Technology Austria, Klosterneuburg): Chaperones, enzymes, large assemblies & new NMR methods: protein dynamics seen by solution- and MAS NMR

• Nicholas Cox (Australian National University, Canberra): High field EPR: a biophysical toolbox. Substrate binding during the biological water splitting reaction

20 Aug 2021

Artificial Intelligence outlines the future of structural biology

Three recent papers published on July 15, July 22, and August 20, 2021, two by DeepMind company in Nature (July) and one by David Baker and coworkers in Science (August), bring a breakthrough in structural biology comparable to previous major instrumental and methodological innovations.

11 Aug 2021

Emerging Topics in Biomolecular Magnetic Resonance Hartmut Oschkinat & Tatyana Igumenova

The series Emerging topics in Biomolecular Magnetic Resonance will continue on August 19^th at 16:00 CEST with the following lecturers and topics:

• Hartmut Oschkinat (FMP Berlin): Structural investigations on a bacterial toxin and its injection machinery

• Tatyana Igumenova (Texas A&M University): Structural basis of protein kinase C regulation probed by NMR and MD simulations

4 Aug 2021

Emerging Topics in Biomolecular Magnetic Resonance Anant Paravastu & Tobias Madl

The series Emerging topics in Biomolecular Magnetic Resonance will continue on August 5^th at 16:00 CEST with the following lecturers and topics:

• Anant Paravastu (Georgia Institute of Technology): Designer peptide co-assembly and what it may be teaching us about naturally occurring protein aggregation

• Tobias Madl (Medical University of Graz): Revealing the role of arginine methylation as key regulator of disordered proteins

29 Jul 2021

Petra Obšelová, a new administrative assistant of CIISB

Petra Obšelová will replace Dagmar Suchá as administrative assistant of CIISB as of August 1, 2021. She will take care of the CIISB web presentation and will assist activities of the Executive Committee and its Chair. Hereby, we express our sincere thanks to Dagmar for the excellent performance during her tenure. We wish her lot of success both in her professional and personal life.

28 Jul 2021

New equipment in CF Nanobio

With funding provided by the CIISB project, the NanoBio Core Facility has been equipped with new instruments that will help scientists from different disciplines to tackle their projects.

27 Jul 2021

POSTDOC POSITION IN STRUCTURAL BIOLOGY & PROTEIN DESIGN

We are seeking for a highly motivated scientist for a postdoctoral position in structural biology and protein design at Loschmidt Laboratories, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic. We conduct research in enzymology and protein engineering to fight acute stroke, cancer and Alzheimer’s disease.